From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Apr 8 23:38: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from Amelia.bsdprophet.org (cherry46.theshop.net [63.67.33.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86C7A37B416 for ; Mon, 8 Apr 2002 23:38:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Amelia.bsdprophet.org (localhost.bsdprophet.org [127.0.0.1]) by Amelia.bsdprophet.org (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g396dIeT057534; Tue, 9 Apr 2002 01:39:19 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from scott@Amelia.bsdprophet.org) Received: (from scott@localhost) by Amelia.bsdprophet.org (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id g396dIEI057533; Tue, 9 Apr 2002 01:39:18 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 01:39:18 -0500 From: Scott Corey To: knoxwallet Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to configure mail(1) program? Message-ID: <20020409063918.GA52095@bsdprophet.org> Mail-Followup-To: Scott Corey , knoxwallet , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG References: <001101c1dc70$3d2b99c0$0219a8c0@rti.su> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <001101c1dc70$3d2b99c0$0219a8c0@rti.su> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Since yahoo is web based email, and you want it to work on a text terminal I recommend that you download /usr/ports/www/w3m. It is a text base web browser and should be able to give you what you want. mail(1) is a program that works with sendmail and if you are not going to get the emails delivered to your FreeBSD machine, it will not accomplish what you want. On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 11:05:13AM +0400, knoxwallet wrote: > i want to be able to send/recieve mail via > smtp.mail.yahoo.com/pop.mail.yahoo.com on the text terminal, but i don't how > to do it. i read some man pages and get mixed up. excuse my stupid question > :) > > > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message -- Scott B. Corey scott@bsdprophet.org irc.openprojects.net #bsdprophet To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message